{"id":35214,"date":"2013-12-28T05:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T05:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35214"},"modified":"2013-12-28T05:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T05:16:21","slug":"but-i-self-identify-as-african-american-that%e2%80%99s-how-i-am-treated-and-that%e2%80%99s-how-i-am-viewed-and-i%e2%80%99m-proud-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35214","title":{"rendered":"But I self-identify as African American. That\u2019s how I am treated and that\u2019s how I am viewed and I\u2019m proud of it."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m an African American,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I am somebody, like many African Americans, who has all kinds of stuff in him\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cBut I self-identify as African American. That\u2019s how I am treated and that\u2019s how I am viewed and I\u2019m proud of it.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason Horowitz, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=35051\" target=\"_blank\">Obama: I\u2019m Not Interested in Talking About Race in the Abstract<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Observer<\/em>, November 26, 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2007\/11\/obama-im-not-interested-in-talking-about-race-in-the-abstract\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/observer.com\/2007\/11\/obama-im-not-interested-in-talking-about-race-in-the-abstract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m an African American,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I am somebody, like many African Americans, who has all kinds of stuff in him\u201d&#8230; &#8230;\u201cBut I self-identify as African American. That\u2019s how I am treated and that\u2019s how I am viewed and I\u2019m proud of it.\u201d \u2014Barack Obama Jason Horowitz, \u201cObama: I\u2019m Not Interested in Talking About [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[16556,16555,16554],"class_list":["post-35214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-excerpts","tag-jason-horowitz","tag-new-york-observer","tag-the-new-york-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}